Power to them. I'm sure Hollow Knight made them all independently wealthy. I'd be hard pressed to bother to work too hard, too.
Underwaterbob
joined 2 years ago
Well, that's depressing. Where's my Star Trek future?
Not only that, but Google assistant is getting consistently less reliable. Like half the time now I ask it a question and it just does an image search or something or completely misunderstands me in some other manner. They deserted working, decent tech for unreliable, unwanted tech because ???
The Grammys are awards for whoever spent the most money on recording and marketing anyway. They have little to do with any kind of artistic or technical merit or musicianship. Maybe never did.
Anyone telling you they can hear the difference between a 320kbps MP3 and lossless audio is full of shit, anyway. It's still a great format for keeping file sizes small, though I prefer ogg these days.
Maybe "arranging" or "composing".
As for tools to make it happen: You can use a "DAW" (Digital Audio Workstation) which is how most people compose these days. I use Reaper because it's a tiny download, very full featured, and cheap. Ableton is very popular and has the biggest community online. Cakewalk is completely free (with a sign up.) ProTools is what a lot of professionals use, though it's dying a slow death because it's very expensive, they've gone full subscription model, and the things it can do that drew people to it can be done just as well with other DAWs that aren't so predatory.
A DAW won't do the work for you, though. If you want something to make harmonies or drum beats for your melody for you, there are a lot of "plugin"s or "VST"s you can download that can help with that process. Or, if you just want to give something a melody and tell it to make a song, there are probably AI solutions these days.
Good luck! Beware the audio rabbit hole. This can be a cheap, or ridiculously expensive hobby.
Audio! I'm a hobbyist musician.
Gaming is a close second.
Nice to see r/printSF is alive and well on Lemmy. 😄
While Blindsight is an amazing book, I'm not sure it's got much in the way of competence porn. Some fantastic psychological science speculation for sure, though.
Nathan Lowell's Trader's Tales From the Golden Age Of The Solar Clipper series is pure competence porn. There's very little action or intrigue, just some guy working his way up from the bottom in interstellar travel and trade via, well, competence. Haha!
I used to use Google assistant to spell words I couldn't remember the spelling of in my English classes (without looking at my phone) so the students could also hear the spelling out loud in a voice other than mine.
Me: "Hey Google, how do you spell millennium?" GA: "Millennium is spelled M-I-L-L-E-N-N-I-U-M."
Now, I ask Gemini: "Hey Google, how do you spell millennium." Gemini: "Millennium".
Utterly useless.